St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-05-28

late we hear nothing about the Irish
being unfit for government.
They are called lazy, improvident.
ignorant and drunken people no longer.
The Tories have changed their tune and
are now heaping calumnies upon Ire
land and its devoted leaders, but the
majority of the English people them
selves do not believe the atrocious SLAM
ders. There is one charge they contin-
ually harp on, and that is that the Irish
people are imtolerant and would perse-
cute their Protestant fellow country
men if home rule were granted. The
best answer to this charge was recently
given by Mr.. Gladstone at the nOn-cOn-
formist meeting in London, presided
over by Dr.. Parker, when he Said,aS re-
ported in the London Times:
Our memory goes back to the time of Queen
Mary, TO whose name we sometimes apply AN
epithet more expressive than il is mild.
Laughter. In that reign, as you very well
Enc"", the Protestants folmed in England a
1eTy powerful party, and notwithstanding
that they did form very powerful party
they were subjected to very sangCinary per-
secutions. In ireland there was not natural
and spontaneous growth Of the reformation.
That is an historical fact, and ii is set forth
i'll no better way than in a very Interesting
volume by Tory Judge al ana RAJ an
who published book on The Re-
formation in Ireland The reformation III
Ireland was imported. The Protestants there
were the merest handful of people, unable
to cause uneasiness to the government or to-
offer the least resistance to their prosecutors.
Under those circumstances, when the Irish
people themselves where possessed Of power,
when they were in unison with the religion
of the government that ruled i'll England,
there was not one single act of prosecutions
which disgraced the whole Of those years;
and not only SO, but it is a positive and abso-
lutte fact that from Chester and Bristol, the
two British ports from which was then carried
on the principal communication with Ire
land, the Protestants of England fed i'll num-
bers to Ireland because they knew that the
public spirit and public feeling i'll Ireland
Id make them safe when they touched
the shore. Is il not rather too much, is it not
cruel, is it not shameful, when the anteccd-
ents of the people proved so splendid and
showed so well their aversion to persecution
in the days that persecution was almost uni
versally carried oG-iS it not rather too much,
ought we not to blush for ouTselves-when
we charge upon those people, in def
ance of their own assurances as well as the
teachings of their history, an intention TO
persecute the Protestants i'll Ireland: Loud
cheers.
Mr.. Vail next referred to William
O'Brien'S crusade against LansdOwne,
and said he would not speak harshly of
the Orangem en after having read the
spirited letter of Mr.. st. George to Will
ldlll " IcIlSli clitt lilS SDtSCIi vi dliOtllCl
Orangeman 1T Hamilton in Pronunciation
of the governor general and in favor of
Irish home rule. The fact is he pre-
ferred the Irish and Canadian Orange
men to the bigoted Tory Catholics of
England, who hate Ireland with more
intensity than the most rabid Orange
man that pelted paving stones and fired
bullets at Mr.. O'Brien. He predicted
that LansdOwne would be driven out of
Canada by public opinion within the
present year. In this connection he
would say that he was astonished at
what p. ii. Kelly had to say in yester-
days GLOBE of Mr.. O'Brien's visit to
Canada.
| DR.. Dillon was the next speaker, and
he dwelt at length upon the certainty OF
Ireland obtaining her national rights
under the splendid leadership of Glad
stone and Parnell.